Italy: Berlusconi Cracks Down On The Freedom of The Press
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is also a media mogul in control of about 3/4 of Italian media, he owns TV stations, newspapers, magazines, and also a major soccer team. Berlusconi has the tools to control the message, and he has been exercising that power during all of his political career. The only possible comparison […]
Feingold Leads The Fight For Our Rights Against The Patriot Act
On October 1ST, the Senate Judiciary Committee began its debate on a version of a bill to extend the Patriot Act. It was a very troubling start falling far short of including much needed civil liberties and rights of privacy protections. The water-down version of the bill proposed by Senators Feinstein & Leahy is not […]
IMF Forecast:Slow Recovery For The World Economy
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its global economic outlook report released today, a global recovery is underway, but likely to be slow or even sluggish in part of the world. The IMF projects that the global economy will rise by 3.1 percent next year, and attributes this likely rebound to China and […]
US Undermines Justice For Gaza Conflict
On September 29, Justice Goldstone officially presented his report on the conflict in Gaza to the United Nations Human Rights Council. “The failure of the US and EU governments to endorse the report sends a message that serious laws-of-war violations will be treated with kid gloves when committed by an ally,” said the group Human […]
US Rabbis Protest Israel’s Policy Over Gaza
A group of 13 American Rabbis and some of their congregants in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Philadelphia are fasting on the third Thursday of every month in an effort to shake the conscience of the American Jewish community about what they see as the inhuman blockade by Israel of Palestinians in the […]
